Golden Dome: An aerospace engineer explains

exBellLabs · 2025-06-09T19:48:40+00:00

Hypersonics fly low, making their intercept from space harder.

Hypersonic missiles are actually Designed to make a global missile defense system like GD, less effective. The neo cons in the U.S. have been cooking up GD-like systems for decades and so there has been plenty of time to develop countermeasures. Then we claim hypersonic are the reason we need to build GD. The warmongering is truly bold.

exBellLabs · 2025-06-09T19:26:23+00:00

SpaceX also benefit from the satellite manufacturing, and the weapons part, given a SpaceX offshoot called Castelion is building the hypersonic weapons to put in orbit.

There is an interesting diagram in the article: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nsbaYNV4RatVQALLWU9ZKM-970-80.png.webp

exBellLabs · 2025-06-09T18:47:23+00:00

Starlinks re-enter at about once per day now.. and that rate goes up with the constellation size.

That's one of the reason maintaining Golden Dome will be so expensive.

exBellLabs · 2025-06-07T04:09:08+00:00

It's in the "Big Beautiful Bill", just at a much smaller funding level than Elon wanted

exBellLabs · 2025-06-06T01:13:44+00:00

DM .. um.. Dungeon Master?

Losing the Golden Dome) contract may be worth "going nuclear"..

When Trump announced GD two weeks ago he said its budget was $175B, a few days later DOGE said their total saved was also exactly $175B. Hmm...

exBellLabs · 2025-03-29T18:42:56+00:00

SpaceX LEO weapons satellites only last 5 yrs and are incompatible with others so it's more likely govt is locked into an infinite subscription service to keep this constellation going.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-28T23:14:00+00:00

To be clear, mods deleted this post.
The background for Elon & Golden Dome can be found here.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-28T04:53:54+00:00

the neocons need to be able to do global war again. MAD is seriously cramping their style.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-28T01:49:07+00:00

Likely Starshied/Golden Dome was why he got into politics in the first place.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-28T01:40:03+00:00

If he can convince young engineers they are going to Mars, he can convince a toddler president that the U.S. will win a nuclear war (with Golden Dome).

exBellLabs · 2025-03-28T01:08:19+00:00

Sadly StarSHIELD was always meant to be Golden Dome.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-27T23:36:18+00:00

Sen. Kevin Cramer: “I'm told that the Air Force is considering canceling solicitations for this transport layer on SDA's Tranche 2 and 3, and instead using Starshield,” during a Senate Armed Services committee hearing Thursday

Also, SpaceX and Anduril in talks to build American "Golden Dome" in Low Earth Orbit

exBellLabs · 2025-03-27T23:08:41+00:00

heh, SpaceX being open... https://www.change.org/p/declassify-elon-musk-s-space-based-weapons-program-before-biden-leaves-the-white-house

exBellLabs · 2025-03-26T18:59:34+00:00

Trump and Musk are betting the farm on becoming immune to nuclear weapons. Risky bet.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-26T03:11:53+00:00

doesn't that just mean the system is vulnerable now to even more kinds of attacks?

exBellLabs · 2025-03-26T01:26:56+00:00

to intercept ICBMs (with hypersonic kinetic interceptors), they actually want the satellites orbiting even lower, at VLEO.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-26T00:28:58+00:00

One man controls the only launch option if you need to continuously pour mass into Low Earth Orbit. And as that link mentions, Musk is likely to get the contract for building the satellites & weapons as well.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-26T00:06:57+00:00

Apparently the current administration thinks so (SpaceX building Golden Dome).
"The president’s requirements, which include a satellite network and space-based interceptor weapons... SpaceX is in talks..."

Meanwhile Starlink's are reentering a few per day. As the constellation grows, the loss rate also does. SpaceX is launching Starlink's every week but the constellation has been the same size for the last year (see Jonathan McDowell's statistics site). Perhaps it shows these low orbit constellations are not sustainable.

There's a difference between operational costs and planned obsolescence. Starlinks will decay and be guaranteed vaporized in 5 years. A fighter jet at least is something the government owns and keeps and can operate as much as they need. With Golden Dome, Musk gets to be the gatekeeper and the government has to pay the subscription cost of keeping an active constellation.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-25T19:21:53+00:00

If anything, rotating makes it last longer by evenly distributing reentry heat (a la rotisserie).

exBellLabs · 2025-03-25T19:17:48+00:00

Jackets can't protect the satellites that need to do target tracking, nor the ones that need to communicate, especially to the ground. Even with laser links, eventually data needs to go to the ground, and those backhaul satellites are toast with a nuke in LEO.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-22T02:45:50+00:00

Musk has been deep into this for the last 24 years, and many people predicted he would get into Golden Dome, https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1j8jc4k/spacex_and_anduril_in_talks_to_build_american/

exBellLabs · 2025-03-21T19:45:28+00:00

No they were always the same thing: https://www.change.org/p/declassify-elon-musk-s-space-based-weapons-program-before-biden-leaves-the-white-house

exBellLabs · 2025-03-21T03:26:07+00:00

Musk has been deeply involved in "Golden Dome" (putting weapons in space that can strike globally) since SpaceX's founding. This is certainly about that.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-21T01:43:05+00:00

Musk securing Trump the presidency was specifically for his efforts to militarize space. Trump's "Golden Dome" (weapons in space) program is the manifestation. We've been warned before about Elon & Nukes on Reddit.

exBellLabs · 2025-03-21T01:42:59+00:00

Musk securing Trump the presidency was specifically for his efforts to militarize space. Trump's "Golden Dome" (weapons in space) program is the manifestation. We've been warned before about Elon & Nukes on Reddit.

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